Bob Nestor wrote:
>T@W  (lsp93@xs4all.nl) wrote:
[snip]
>>Wouldn't it be clearer to put these 'golden' oldies in an separate
>>archive-archive ?
>>(Just a thought)
>
>That's probably a very good idea.  It would also be nice to reorgnize the
>Mkfs, Installer, and Booter applications in much the same way.

You need help, you let me know?
An idea:leaving their original dates attached.

>I just tried helping a new user get started and he was convinced that all the
>different versions of these applications were to support different model
>Macs.  He kept asking where the documentation was that defined which one
>he should use for his system.

You've made my day ;}

>I'm sure there is a need to keep many of these oldies around just in case
>someone has a problem or finds a new use for one of them.  Hauke's use of
>the ROM Sniffer is a very good example.

Definitely, for example the resedit-and-others are very useful tools for in
the treasury.

>BTW, today I found a really old MacOS Utility that would be a wonderful
>addition to our toolkit.  It's called "SCSI Evaluator" and it dumps the
>Mode Pages from SCSI devices as well as allowing one to remap bad blocks.
> For those who don't have this capability in their disk formatter or for
>those having problems with SCSI disks this can be a very handy utility.

I believe there's always somewhere somehow for somebody a need for these
utilities.

Hail to the handyman.

Cheerz Bob,
Touchwood